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David Crystal
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Noam Chomsky
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John McWhorter
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Gretchen McCulloch
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Lauren Gawne
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Valerie Fridland
Social Scientist

Alexander Argüelles
Polyglot

Mark Baker
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Emily Bender
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Richard Simcott
Polyglot

Anna Khachiyan
Journalist

Amanda Lafleur
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David Crystal, "Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories" (Bodleian Library, 2025)
In Bookish Words & their Surprising Stories (Bodleian, 2025) by Dr. David Crystal, explore how books have played a pivotal role in the history of English vocabulary. The noun itself is one of the oldest words in the language, originating from boc in Old English, and appears in many commonly used expressions today – by
Columbia University linguistics professor and bestselling author John McWhorter discusses some of the quirks of the English language and explains why one of Stephen’s favorite Southern words will always be considered slang. McWhorter’s book “Pronoun Trouble” is available now. To learn more about listener data and our
What's Behind the Elon vs. Trump Drama, and Insane Leftist Arguments, with Ben Shapiro, Anna Khachiyan, and Dasha Nekrasova | Ep. 1088
Megyn Kelly is joined by Ben Shapiro, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show,” to discuss the ongoing nuclear social media war between Elon Musk and President Trump, what Musk’s real role was in Trump’s 2024 victory, the way the left and the right are reacting to it, the real reason Elon vs. Trump went nuclear related to NASA,
Jonah Goldberg knows many a public intellectual, but linguist extraordinaire John McWhorter is one of his favorites. John returns to the show to discuss his new book, Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words. Topics include: grammars of the elite, the imposition of language rules, the they-shaped elephant
John McWhorter, Columbia University linguistics professor, host of the Lexicon Valley podcast, opinion writer at The New York Times, and the author of Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words (Avery, 2025), talks about his new book that digs into the cultural and linguistic history of pronoun usage in Eng
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